When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Saturday, October 16, 2010

16 October 2009 - Brussels, Belgium

My sculpture "The Beast of Jersey", consisting of a wooden box with two large chicken feet jerking in and out randomly on two metal rods connected to an electric motor inside. It dates from the late 1980's and was still alive and kicking in an exhibition at Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium.1553 (-) Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder originally Lucas Sunder, dies at the age of 81 in Weimar, Germany.1708 (+) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller is born in Bern, Switzerland.1793 (-) Excessive Queen of France Marie Antoinette originally Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.1799 (-) Composer Antoine Frederic Gresnick dies at the age of 44 in Paris, France.1854 (+) Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland.1872 (+) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte is born in Albania.1886 (+) Architect of Israël David Gruen Ben Gurion is born in Plonsk, Poland.1888 (x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, ‘From Hell’ to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, United Kingdom.1908 (+) Leader of Albania Enver Hoxha is born in Gjirokaster, Albania.1909 (+) Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, USA.1914 (+) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste is born.1927 (+) Writer Günter Wilhelm Grass is born in Gdansk, Poland.1931 (-) Hedvig Samuelson aka Sammy, is stabbed and shot dead by Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, at the age of 24 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.1934 (x) 40-year-old Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong starts his Long March in Yudu, Jiangxi, China.The march covered about 12.500 kilometres in 370 days.1936 (+) Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is born in Jablotschnoje, Achtyra, Sumy, Russia.1937 (-) Roger Leblond is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Neuilly, France.1939 (+) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1946 (-) Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1946 (x) 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by John Woods in Nürnberg, gymnastics-hall of the prison, Bavaria, Germany.1955 (x) 14-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old John and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler are found molested, strangled and beaten to death by an unidentified sex-killer in Chicago, Robinson Woods Forest Preserve, Illinois, USA.1955 (+) IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, is born in Belfast, Ireland.1959 (x) 20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, arrives in Moscow, Russia.1974 (-) Karen Wein is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Marlboro, Connecticut, USA.1975 (-) Susan Dye is presumably strangled a forty-seventh victim by Zodiac in Santa Rosa, California, USA.1981 (-) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Israel.1985 (-) Murderer William E. Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana, USA.He was still breathing after the first administration of 2,300 volts, and the current had to be applied three more times before he died.1991 (-) Mass Murderer George Hennard commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Killeen, Texas, USA.He first drove his van into "Luby’s Restaurant" and started shooting around, killing 23 and wounding another 15.1995 (x) Eleventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Austria.Three mail-bombs explode, several people are injured.1995 (x) Twelfth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Graz, Austria.Four mail-bombs explode while still at post-offices, several people are injured.1995 (x) 43-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is released from prison in Stuttgart, Germany.1996 (x) 94 Die in Estado Mateas Flores stampede in Guatemala City, Guatemala.47.000 soccer fans tried to squeeze in the 36.000 seat stadium.1996 (-) Consensual victim Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, is tortured and strangled by Robert Fredrick Glass at the age of 35 in North Carolina, USA.1997 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is arrested and charged with 14 murders in Beijing, China.2004 (x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando marries 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Deborah claimed to be Elvis Presley's illegitimate daughter.